Category: vtol

Kitty Hawk moves on from its original flying car project

Post author By Randall
Post date June 4, 2020
Categories In electric plane, flyer, gear, heaviside, kitty hawk, News, project heaviside, sebastian thrun, Tech, vtol

[ad_1] Unfortunately, it failed to find a way to turn the project into a viable business venture. “No matter how hard we looked, we could not find a path to a viable business,” Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun told TechCrunch. The company had another project called Cora that developed two-seater autonomous taxis. Since that one […]

Volocopter’s massive utility drone can carry up to 440 pounds

Post author By Randall
Post date October 30, 2019
Categories In air taxi, aircraft, airtaxi, autonomous aircraft, Daimler, drone, evtol, gear, geely, helicopter, Robots, Tech, Transportation, volocopter, volodrone, vtol

[ad_1] The VoloDrone shares many similar specs with the VoloCity, as it can carry the same maximum payload of 440 lbs (200 kg) at up to a slightly further distance of 25 miles (40 km), and it can reach the same top speed of 68 mph (110 km/h). At 9.2 m wide and 2.3 m […]

Lilium proves its electric air taxi can fly

Post author By Randall
Post date October 22, 2019
Categories In business, electric plane, flight, flight test, flying, flying taxi, footage, gear, green, lilium, lilium jet, munich, Tech, test, tomorrow, Transportation, vtol

[ad_1] Lilium has been working on its vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) craft for a few years, and this spring, we saw the prototype hover above the ground. This new video shows that it can both hover and fly horizontally. According to the company, the VTOL jet has completed more than 100 ground and flight […]

Kitty Hawk’s ‘Heaviside’ is an ultra-quiet electric flying machine

Post author By Randall
Post date October 4, 2019
Categories In flying car, gear, heaviside, kitty hawk, larry page, project heaviside, quiet, sebastian thrun, Tech, Transportation, vtol

[ad_1] It’s also tiny, as you can make out in a picture with a person crouching next to the aircraft with seating for one. TechCrunch got up close and personal with Heaviside, noting that at the moment the cockpit seats its passenger on bare carbon fiber. Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun told TechCrunch “The calculus […]

Paris may offer flying taxis to 2024 Olympics guests

Post author By Randall
Post date June 23, 2019
Categories In aeroports de paris, Airbus, aircraft, airport, autonomous, charles de gaulle, flying taxi, gear, olympic games, olympics, olympics 2024, paris, paris transport authority, ratp, Tech, Transportation, vtol

[ad_1] You wouldn’t have to wait long, either, as taxis could take off every six minutes. There are already machinations underway. Aeroports de Paris has to pick a site for a flying taxi hub in Paris by the end of 2019, and it should be ready within 18 months. The team will test the link […]